IRVINE, Calif. – The PacWest’s highest annual individual athletic honors have been awarded to Point Loma’s Baxter Halligan and Academy of Art’s Anahi Servin, who were named the PacWest Male & Female Athletes of the Year as voted on by the athletic directors from the PacWest member institutions.
 
Halligan is a two-way player for the Point Loma baseball team, which won the NCAA West Regional and reached the national championship game, while Servin is a four-time PacWest Golfer of the Year and won the individual national title in women’s golf.
 
Servin set the PacWest record for most weekly awards in a career across all sports with 17, including five this year alone. She was named the PacWest Golfer of the Year for the fourth time in her career after finishing runner-up at the PacWest Championships by a single stroke, becoming the first PacWest student-athlete ever to be named their sport’s Athlete of the Year in all four years of their career.
 
Servin is not only the first PacWest golfer to have finished in the top-10 at the PacWest Championships all four years of her career. She also won the conference title three times in a row before finishing as runner-up, one stroke away from completing the Servin Slam.
 
She earned a berth into the NCAA West Super Regional as an individual at-large bid. On the 16^th hole of the final round, she made an eagle to move high enough on the leaderboard to narrowly book her ticket to the national championships, qualifying for the fourth time in her career.
 
At the national championships, Servin won the only thing left that she hadn’t accomplished: a national title. She was tied for first after the first round and never trailed after that, going on to win her 14^th title overall by four strokes. Shortly after lifting the biggest trophy of her collegiate career, she completed her degree in architecture and is now pursuing a career in professional golf.
 
Halligan led Point Loma to the most successful baseball season ever seen in the PacWest with a record 51 wins on the way to the national championship game. The Sea Lions won their first PacWest title and then went on to win the sub-regional and NCAA West Regional Championship Series in order to earn a trip to Cary, North Carolina for the NCAA Division II National Championships.
 
Halligan showed that Shohei Ohtani isn’t the only two-way baseball player in Southern California that is dominating both on the mound and at the plate. He combined hitting, pitching and fielding in a way that no PacWest baseball player ever has before. He was the first player since baseball became an official PacWest sport in 2010 to be named the PacWest Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year.
 
At the plate, he had a .344 batting average with 10 home runs and 49 RBIs, while recording a 14-2 record on the mound with a 2.07 ERA and 120 strikeouts. He also played rightfield when he wasn’t pitching and helped Point Loma record a record .982 fielding percentage, which led the nation and smashed the PacWest record. His wins and strikeouts also set PacWest records.
 
In the postseason, the Sea Lions won every game that Halligan started on the mound. He threw 25 innings in the postseason with just four runs allowed, beating Cal Poly Pomona, Azusa Pacific, Illinois-Springfield and Rollins en route to the championship game. He also had 17 hits in 11 games this postseason as the Sea Lions made the deepest postseason run ever by a PacWest team.
 
This is the first such award that Point Loma has won, while this is the fifth time Academy of Art has received this honor. Servin joins Vashti Thomas, Mobolade Ajomale and James Young on the list of Urban Knights to be named Athlete of the Year across all sports for their gender.